# Kozmik, pass 4th Grade before you post about Math **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 19, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934 "2005-10-19T16:51:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/61 "2005-10-21T02:54:02Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Be my guest. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/62 "2005-10-21T14:48:14Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I can explain this to you all. But only if you FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER!! > > First, go purchase a copy of “Sexxxy Nurses 12”. Send it to me. I will then provide further instructions. Damn, I was going to post that, still made me laugh though. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/63 "2005-10-21T14:57:50Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I can explain this to you all. But only if you FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER!! > > First, go purchase a copy of “Sexxxy Nurses 12”. Send it to me. I will then provide further instructions. I’ve been hoping that “I can explain it to you but only if you FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER!!” (followed by a series of demands to watch cheesy movies and read silly books very closely) becomes a new dope cliche, along with “1920’s style death ray” and “Once, in 1960, for twenty minutes.” So props to you **Smeghead** , for helping to make this happen. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/64 "2005-10-24T20:13:48Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I’m confused. Is Kozmic supposed to pass 4th grade or 7th grade? Is this the numerical equivalent of Gaudere’s law? For public schools these days, most 7th graders are doing math at a 4th grade level. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/65 "2005-10-24T21:15:19Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > Hey, **Voyager**! > > You had your chance: > > :dubious: I responded to you many times, always ignored. I see two possibilities: You know something about this, but can’t write well enough to demonstrate it. You don’t know anything about math. I’m tending towards a third - you don’t know anything about math AND you can’t write. So, why don’t you return to the thread and give us some indication you know what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/66 "2005-10-25T06:13:35Z")
> [@BooBoo316](#): > > Boo read thread. Math hard. Brain hurts. Boo go lay down now. Go for the _i_ Boo, go for the _i_! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/67 "2005-10-25T07:03:56Z")
Definition of a sinking feeling: A dear friend comes to you and says, “Hey! I can prove that algebra is fatally flawed!” Here followeth several circuitous demonstrations and workings that eventually come to something involving 1 - 0.999… = 0 when “obviously” it should be 0.000…001. You realize that you will now have to explain why 0.999… = 1, and you realize what a fuss you made about that one in grade 6, and since your friend came to you propounding a belief instead of asking a question, you will never satisfy him. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/68 "2005-10-25T07:15:34Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > I’m sure when **rayh** said “brains” he meant “whatever passes for brains deep within that thick skull of yours” but didn’t want to type all that out. 😉 > > Since he noted that the substance in question “will be melting out of his ears”, I’m going to guess it’s Velveeta. Who’s got the [Rotel](http://www.texmex.net/Rotel/main.htm)? Forget the Rotel, who was supposed to bring the _chips_? It’s true, I got nothin’. I just wanted my post to bask in the reflected intellectual glow of this thread. -Jellyblue, iffy on the whole long division thing. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934/69 "2005-10-25T16:57:15Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > For public schools these days, most 7th graders are doing math at a 4th grade level. Heh. The way they’re teaching math these days, I sometimes have a hard time figuring out the instructions on my 1st grader’s math homework. Of course, I’m also the broad who needs a couple of hours, a stiff drink, and a good run-up to balance my checkbook; now _there’s_ an exercise in irrational numbers. The linked thread made my eyeballs spin around and bounce off each other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kozmik-pass-4th-grade-before-you-post-about-math/326934.md?page=3)